Damian Karzon

• Leading and managing the engineering team, overseeing hiring, mentoring, and professional development to build a high-performing team culture.
• Setting technical strategy and roadmap for the payments platform, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and growth targets.
• Driving the development of a next-generation payments platform, delivering scalable and resilient solutions for high-volume transaction processing.
• Spearheading the AI strategy for the engineering team, establishing guidelines and best practices for leveraging AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development velocity and code quality.
• Owning platform reliability, security, and compliance standards across the engineering organisation, ensuring adherence to PCI-DSS and financial industry regulations.

• Served as technical lead and senior individual contributor, driving architectural decisions and setting engineering standards across the platform.
• Implemented AI-powered automation in developer workflows, including automated code reviews, documentation generation, and intelligent test case creation, reducing manual effort and improving consistency.
• Acted as Developer Advocate, promoting the public payments API and enabling seamless integrations for external developers, resulting in increased adoption and reduced onboarding friction.
• Designed and maintained mission-critical accounting system integrations (Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks), ensuring accurate financial data flow and compliance across platforms.
• Built a Chrome extension (React, Tailwind CSS) to embed Pinch Payments data into partner platforms, improving workflow efficiency and user experience.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Championed engineering best practices, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native architecture to accelerate delivery cycles and reduce production incidents.

• Led engineering teams to build and scale WORK180's online platforms, empowering workplace diversity initiatives.
• Designed and deployed web services and applications (ASP.NET Core, React, Next.js, Docker, AWS), supporting rapid feature delivery and platform growth.
• Implemented a Business Intelligence strategy with Tableau Server, enabling executives to make data-driven decisions.
• Prototyped emerging technologies to solve business challenges, reducing technical debt and future-proofing the platform.
• Managed vendor relationships and 3rd-party integrations, ensuring seamless interoperability and cost efficiency.
• Oversaw technical budgeting and forecasting, aligning engineering investments with company growth objectives.

• Developing and maintaining web services and applications (ASP .NET Core, React, Docker, AWS)

• Leading the team of developers for a number of mobile apps and games projects for the company's clients.
• Develop and maintain applications across multiple platforms and technologies. Including Web, Windows, Android, Unity3d and Xamarin.
• Delivery Quality - Ensure that we deliver high quality technical solutions with minimal defects and maximum client happiness.
• Developer Operations - Ensuring effective and efficient usage of automation processes to ensure developers can focus on writing code.

• Developing and maintaining applications across multiple platforms for the company's clients.
• Develop and maintain various developer operations systems to improve company efficiency.

• Developing and maintaining Windows Store and Windows Phone apps for the company's clients.

• Leading the team of software developers for a number of projects across the group.
• Create and maintain applications to support the requirements of businesses in the group.
• Provide support to the group for 3rd party web applications (Content Management Systems, Intranet)
• Dreamworld/White WaterWorld & SkyPoint Ecommerce - Tightly integrated with Point of Sale system and scalable to manage large influx of users (ASP.NET MVC3, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET WCF). Mobile site created with jQuery Mobile. Dreamworld Online Shop
• Goodlife Healthclubs Ecommerce - Rebuilt Ecommerce system specifically built for Goodlife Healthclubs (ASP.NET MVC4, .NET 4.0) www.goodlife.com.au

Formally Maquarie Leisure Operations

• Contracted to integrate and customise a 3rd party ecommerce platform into existing Point of Sale and Reporting systems.